Improvement in cutting and pressing hay



- UNITED` Srarns pi. @tribut RSTVELL VAKEMAN AND' JOSEPH D BALLAOE, OF PORT DEPOSIT, MD.

'IMPROVEMENT IN CUTTING AND PRESSIING I-IAY, 86e.

Specification forming part of Leiters Patent No. 47,@S3, dated May 2 l, F135.

To all whom may concer-rt.-

Be it known that we, RoswnLL WAKEMAN and JOSEPH L. BALLANCE, of Port Deposit, in the county of Cecil, State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Apparatus for Cutting, Packing, and Pressing into Bales Out Hay; and the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l represents a plan or top View of the apparatus or machine. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation or. front view. Fig. 3 shows a deand arrangement of a feed-cutter, a stamping apparatus, a screw-press and follower, a vertical double-rotating adjustable platform containing two pressing-boxes, so that while the one is being lled with the cut hay the other can be pressed into a solid and compact bale Aand discharged from the press, it being liberated by opening both sides of the box, as seen in Fig. 3.

To enable others skilled in the art to make I and use our invention, we will describe its construction and its operation more fully, referring to the drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

TVe make a substantial frame of timber, it being supported on a base or sill, A, with upright posts B B, and a plate, C, the width of the frame being sufficient to allow two suitable-size receivers or packing-boxes, D D, to be placed on a solid platform, E, the boxes being secured together by frames F F at the upper portion, above -where the boxes are made to be opened, to fasten and discharge the bale after it is packed. The lower portion of the boxes D D are clamped together with strong timbers e e e, which are hinged together at the corner by putting an iron rod or bolt, fj', down through the series of the timbers, so that the two opposite sides will open outward. rllhe ends of the timbers which are not held by the rods f f have notches g g, to fit the tenons h h on the timbers Q1 t', which form the fourth side to complete the box D, and when the box is closed to receive the cut hay the doors o c are firmly held in their places by the vertical timbers 7c 7c, which are hinged to the side of the box by arms j j. The platform E and frames F F are secured to a Vertical shaft, G, placed in the center of the frame, so that the packing-boxes D D will, by the action of a pedal, b, under the shaft G, raise the platform E off the base A and allow the boxes D D to swing round and be placed alternately under the receiving and packing apparatus and the press, where they are held by the catches mm. rlhe hay-cutter H is mounted upon a platform, I, placed on one side of the frame in such a position that the cut hay will readily slide into the top of one of the boxes, where it is stamped or packed in by the`drop K, made to operate automatically by the cord n and pulleys o 0, and clutch-windlass L on the main driving-shaft M. Vlien the box D is packed full of the cut hay, it is swung round and placed under the press, leaving the other box in the proper position for being filled in the same manner, while the follower O is brought down by the screws P P, which have their bearings in boxes fitted into the timbers d d, placed horizontally in the frame to support the pressing mechanism. The two screws P P, being secured top and bottom, are made to operate on the follower O by a yoke, Q, in which the beam R of the follower is fastened in the center, the yoke having the boxes or nuts for the screw-threads on each side of the follower near the ends, so that no guides other than the screws P P are necessary, the screws being operated bothways-down and up-by bevel-gear wheels a a, driven by correspond'- ing gear-wheels, o" 1, on the horizontalshaft N, l

near the top of the machine.

It is a well-established fact that there is` great economy in using cut hay in feeding cattle, even when a large stock is kept on the farm where the is grown; but in cities and villages, where a person keeps only one or a pair ol" horses, or a cow or two, and purchases his feed at the market prices, the economy of using eut hay is still more apparent; and the expense ofa good hay or straw cutter is considerable, and the labor oi? cutting by hand-power is so great that but few, comparatively, use them, and hay cut and sold by feed-dealers, generally by the bushel, is at an advance of from thirty to Iifty per cent. But fewpersons in cities who keep but`two or three horses or cows are provided with stable room or lofts in which. to store away a load of hay, and consequently theyl buy their hay put up into bales. lt is therefore to supply small consumers of feed with chopped hay put up in convenient-sized bales that we have constructed, arranged, and combined the hay cutting', packing, and pressing apparatus herein dcscribed.

It will readily be seen that by the above arrangement there will bc a great saving' of time and labor, and that consumers can besnpplied Icombination with an automatic stamping or packing apparatus,substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The manner of fastening the doors of the packing or pressing boxes, as herein described.

3. The combination of machinery, as herein described, for pressing cut hay into bales.

In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands and afiix our seals.

ROSVELL fAKE'Mr/XN. [L JOSEPH L. 'EALLANCIFL [n s] lVitnesses:

.'I'. B. XVOOURUFF, JACOB l. HAU.. 

